Baling-press



(N0 Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 1. L. S. FLATAU.

BALING PRESS.

No. 406,206. Patented July Z, 1889.

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BALING PRESS.

No. 406,206. Patented July 2, 1889.

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PATENT OFFICE.

LOUIS s. FLATAU, on rrr'rsnnne, TEXAS] BALlNG-PRESS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 406,206, dated July 2,1889.

Application filed December 14, 1888. Serial No. 293,615. (No model.)

tion and combination of parts, as will be hereinafter described, andpointed out in the claim.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of my press. Fig. 2 is avertical longitudinal section of the press-box. Fig. 3 is across-section of the press-box on line a m of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a detailsection illustrating the gearing. Fig. 5 is a detail View of thefollower, partly broken away; and Fig. 6 is a detail view illustratingthe connection of the screw-shaft with the ends of the follower.

The press-box A has baling-chambers B in its opposite ends, and in useis arranged horizontally, as shown. The walls of chambers B are formedwith slots 1), for the passage of the tying-wires, and are bound attheir outer and inner ends by iron bands 0 and D, such bands encirclingthe chambers and giving great strength to-the box. The removable doors Eare fitted to the ends of the chambers and have flanges or edges 6,which extend in position to be engaged by the bail-like clamps F, whichhave their arms hinged or pivoted at their free ends to the press-box,and are arranged to turn at their free or swinging ends over the edgesof the doors and secure the same snugly in position. These doors havetheir inner edges formed with grooves for the tying-wire.

The plunger or follower G is formed with two plunger-blocks and aconnecting-frame rigidly uniting such blocks, such frame consisting,preferably, of four beams H, fitting snugly in the corners of thepress-box and rigidly connected at their ends to the end blocks, thefollower being thus adapted to slide smoothly and evenly within thepress box and in both directions, as will be readily seen.

The screw-shaft I extends between the follower-blocks G and is connectedto such parts. By preference I secure the screw-shaft rigidly to suchblocks, and by forming its ends 1' angular or otherwise non-circular incross-section and fitting such ends in similar openings in plates J,secured to the inner sides of the blocks G. On this screw-shaft I, I fita nut K, having gear-teeth, which are meshed by a gear Z on thedrive-shaft L. The nut K bears between one arm m of the bearingframe M,which frame has arms m m, connected by cross-bar M, the said frame beingsecured to the press-box, the crossbar M providing a bearing for thedrive-shaft L, and a distance sleeve or piece M being provided betweenarm on and the nut K, such construction enabling the placing of arms m msufficiently apart to permit the gear Z to operate between them. Thedistance sleeve or piece M it will be seen, is made integral with thearm m of the bearing-frame M. On this piece M I provide the stud or pinm which forms a step or bearing for the lower or inner end of shaft L,steadies the operation of such shaft, and relieves the bearings of suchshaft in frame M and in the boxframe of much of the wear and strain.

By the described construction it will be seen that by means of a sweepN, which may be the tongue of the machine detached from the hounds andattached to the drive-shaft, the gear Z may be turned in one or theother direction to cause the follower to move toward one or the otherend of the box. The hay or other material can consequently be placed inone chamber, the door of the same be fastened in position, and the screwoperated to move the plunger-block with great force into such chamber.When the bale has been properly pressed, the wires may be applied andsecured in the usual manner. After the bale has been secured the doormay be opened and one or two turns given the sweep to force the bale outof the door. As abale is being pressed in one chamber the hay 'or othermaterial for another bale may be fed into the opposite chamber, thepressing of which would at once begin on the reverse movement of thesweep, thus saving time, as every movement backward or forward of thesweep is availed of to press in either one or the other chamber of thebox.

In practice the press-box is usually supported 011 wheels, as shown, oron runners, to facilitate its passage from field to field, and when inuse the machine may be staked in position in any desired manner.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new is In abaling-press, the combination of the press box or frame, the frame M,secured to said box or frame, and having an arm m, an arm m, and adistance-sleeve M extended from arnl m and provided with a pin or stud072?, the follower provided with a screw-shaft extended throughdistance-sleeve M and arm m, a bevel-gear K on said shaft between thesleeve M and arm m, and the shaft L, I 5 having a wheel Z, meshing withthe wheel K, such shaft L being journaled at its lower end on the pin orstud m all substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

LOUIS S. FLATAU.

WVituesses:

E. V. HEARN, L. C. DUPREE.

